NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Expiring Parental Controls Leaves Orbi RBR850 in Inconsistent State
I was on a one-month free trial of Parental Controls and had setup Bedtime and Time Limits for my son's devices. Everything seemed to be working fine. Evidently in the last couple of days, the free t...
Firmware v4.6.9.11. Could connect to Orbi router via Ethernet and Internet showed “Good” and Wifi showed as working. Wired devices could surf through router. Affected random wireless devices could connect to WiFi and access local LAN resources (e.g., PiHole DHCP server) but could not access Internet.
I went through all normal rebooting and power-cycling trouble shooting steps. It wasn’t until exhaustive searching through settings that I found the list of blocked devices. Simply turning off “Access Control” cleared it up. Hopefully if someone else has the weird symptoms in the future, they will find this post.
I went through all normal rebooting and power-cycling trouble shooting steps. It wasn’t until exhaustive searching through settings that I found the list of blocked devices. Simply turning off “Access Control” cleared it up. Hopefully if someone else has the weird symptoms in the future, they will find this post.
Glad you got it working. Please mark your thread as solved so others will know. Be sure to save off a back up configuration to file for safe keeping. Saves time if a reset is needed.
https://kb.netgear.com/000062080/How-do-I-back-up-the-configuration-settings-on-my-Orbi-WiFi-System
Enjoy. 📡